This is the most recent NMC Horizon report on Learning analytics. This goes in depth to many different aspects of learning analytics and the ways that it works.
This article shows a company that bought Renaissance, which is a learning analytics company, for a billion dollars. This shows another example of a large company taking interest in learning analytics and education, the first company being Google.
This article talks about learning analytics being used in schools and by students and how it is just the "natural progression" of things that will happen eventually. It shows that the uses of learning analytics are going to become common place one day and everyone will be using them.
This is a description of and list of articles on learning analytics from the 2013 horizon report. It has a large list of useful articles and links for learning analytics.
This article discribes what learning analytics are and how they are important. Then it talks about a summer institution for learning analytics that started in 2013.
This article is about Google putting $40 dollars into a company for learning analytics. It shows a large company like Google getting involved in and putting focus towards education.
This article is about tensions that have been growing in the tech world because of the recent deal to sell Renaissance Learning Inc., which is a learning analytics company, for 1.1 billion dollars. This shows the importance of learning analytics because of the large sums of money that are being put into it.
This article is about the practice uses of learning analytics in business. It uses examples such as the ways that target finds out if a customer is pregnant and sends them coupons and Amazon suggest items for people.
LACE is a learning analytics project aimed at bringing together various projects from the learning analytics world. It's goal is to allow learning analytics to have a smooth transition of data between companies and programs, allowing for more effective support for students and teachers in the long run. More date may be needed.
This article is about whether or not is is entirely ethic for university professors to be collecting as much data on students as they so. This shows a view from the other side about the things that could be considered bad but only if taken wrong.
I hope people interested on the Learning Analytics topic find this useful, it includes images and I found it helpful to understand more clearly this topic.
A good summary of how analytic tactics are used in the modern world. Amazing definition of learning analytics on page 4. Also has useful charts to help understand how different forms of data can be used in an educational setting.